The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-29

adhesion; nursing mothers had found moth
ing like il for improving their ewn vitality .
and the health of their offspring; patients
in the last stages of consumption had Sc
cured new lease of life; and in cases Of
broken limbs it was infallible IN knitting |
the bones together; in curvature of the |
spine, nothing like it had ever been dis |
covered; and for sciatica, rheumatism and
gout, it was special boon of Providence. /
Every druggist who expected to succeed in
business secured few dozen of Duffy-and !
1t really seemed as il the fountain for which
Ponce de Leon sought in vain was found
in Duffy's Elixir of Life. Ere long the
bubble burst-people concluded that Duffy
was humbug, and his whiskey delusion
and snare. Some people got it into their
who went back upon his fellow thieves, was
the Duffy who was endorsing the whiskey,
and they concluded that as Duffy was
fraud, the whiskey was no better than the
cndorser; the sales fell off, Duffy could not
pay his advertising bills, and poor Sniffen
who was put in the hole, went to the wall,
and if any other advertising agent under
takes to induce the public to drink any
such compound as Duffy's whiskey, hope
he will share the fate of Sniffen.
But this was not all of Sniffen's misfor-
tunes: he undertook TO boom "Laird's
Bloom of Youth" 1t is a terrible thing,
and 1 might add a shocking thing, to see
an old woman who should have better
sense, with her cheeks painted but to see
a young girl with her blooming face disfg-
ured with an execrable compound of vii
lainous chalk, bismuth and vermillion-is
enough to shake mans faith in the ten
commandments. 1t is hard to tell how it
was done, but Bloom of Youth got foot
hold everywhere. Young girls with cheeks
like roses and lips like cherries, wiped out
Gods magnificent handiwork with this hor-
ribe compound, and were not ashamed to
be seen in the light of open day, their love-
ly cheeks daubed like those of that nameless
class, which an aesthetic journalist described
as solcd doves. But even this craze passed
away, and Notwithstanding the most enor-
nous advertising that, too, went the way
of all chalk. Mr.. Laird could not pay his
bills to Sniffen,- and Sniffen could not pay
his bills to anybody else, so for the present
that ends Sniffen. Moral, "beware of
Laird's Bloom of Youth and Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey."
A strange figure on the street is Mrs.
Hetty Green, the female Wall Street mil
lionaire. OF late, We have been regaled
with a number of anecdotes of dead misers
men who with hundreds Of thousands, and
in one case, millions of dollars, haye denied
themselves the common necessaries of life
and died in misery; but here is woman,
well bred, never knowing want, born rich,
eyer since she can remember having all the
money at her command that the heart of
woman can desire; and yet with thirty
millions of dollars at her command, the in
terest of which she will never spend, is to-
day as close-fisted, as if her life depended
on the accumulation of dollars, and as If
her husband and her son depended on heI
for their daily bread. If yeu should sec
her standing in Wall Street on rainy day,
as she frequently does, when watching fol
pointers, with her plain dress and rubber
boots, ii you were at all charitably inclined
the chances are ten to one that you would
stop and drop quarter into her old cotton
umbrella, and the chances are million tC
one, that she would put it into her pocket
A story is told of her, that few years ago
her son. her only darling. for whom she is
saving all these millions, broke his leg;
skillful surgeon came from the hospital
and not knowing Mrs. Green and supposine
from their surroundings that the family
was poor, which delusion was not dspelleC
by Mrs. Green, attended the little sufferer
supplying all the appliances from the hos
Dital, and when the recovery was complete
only sent in a small bill for his services
He afterwards discovered how he had beeI
imposed upon; he sent in bill of thou
sand dollars, threatening to sue if 1t wa
not paid, and it is Unnecessary to add, tha
when Mrs. Green found herself confronted
with just claim. and long possible bill
of lawyers fees and costs, she paid tn,
doctor.
Though long known as a bold operate
on the Street, no one suspected the exten
of her wealth till the failure of John
Cisco's Sons. This house, if not one o
the Oldest, was considered one of the staun
chest in the land. The firm had the con
tidence of the best financiers in the United
States and Europe. The panic of 1SS.
brought a sudden squeeze in all kinds o
securities, and if the Ciscos had been will
ing to 10 what thousands have done unde
similar circumstances and raised none,
by hypothecating million or so of tn
securities that lay in their safe-they coult
have tidel over the evil time; no maj
would have been any wiser, and John j
Ciseos Sons would have been fnancia
princes in the land to-day. Twenty-si,
millions of Hetty Green's securities la
there completely at their mercy, but ever
member of the firm was the soul of honor
with life long ruin staring them in the fac
uiey "ouiu hOI s"eINe one half from TN
line of right. The crash came. Hett
heard the news, and it is said, l don't kno,
on what authority. that she actnall hired
cab and drove down town Wild with alright
The bank was closed, and she thundered a
the door for admittancs; at last, she got in
she got her twenty-six millions all intact
packed them in her cab and drove uptown
leaving John j. Ciscos Sons ruined. He
husband had got several hundred thonsan
dollars from the Ciscos, and had failed t
pay them; this Mrs. Green did not want +
' make good, but was finally compelled to
= so. Hers is not lovable character.
Z mlserlY man is a despicable object. even.